I was managing editor for a while [in National Lampoon ], and it does cause business problems when your circulation goes up.

Lampoon was a very collegial operation, though "collegial" usually means "friendly" and it wasn't that friendly. But we were tight, like a family.

Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.

If you get outside the world of show business and its satellites, there's a whole world of car nuts in the Los Angeles area.

Greatest generation came through some stuff that we can't even imagine - the Depression, World War I - and all they wanted after that was a breather and a calm and a quiet life, and they get us.

In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic.

The Greenpeace booth at all the rock and roll shows nowadays are akin to the old sorcerers who used to stand in the middle of villages warning of danger, 'When night wolf swallows mother moon, there will be great famine.'